Veronica A. Schleicher

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

Deloitte Tax LLP provides tax services. The firm offers corporate, management, and individual advisory. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Republic Wireless, Inc. engages in the provision telecommunication services. It offer phones, SIM kit, home products, and phone accessories. Its services include cell phone financing and home tech protection. The company was founded by Chris Chuang, David A. Morken and Henry Kaestner in November 2011 and is headquartered in Raleigh, NC.

Part of Carousel Capital Management Co LP, Carousel Capital Co. LLC provides investment services. The company is based in Charlotte, NC.

Discovery Education, Inc. develops learning platform. Its solutions include science, social studies, math techbook, and professional development. The company is headquartered in Charlotte, NC.

Carolina Angel Network LLC (CAN) is a venture capital firm founded in 2016. The firm is headquartered in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Part of Publicis Groupe SA, Relay, Inc. operates a content creation tool for non-designers.

TDF Ventures LLC (TDF Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1999. The firm is headquartered in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

US Small Business Administration provides funding and support to entrepreneurs and small businesses. It delivers loans, loan guarantees, contracts, counseling sessions and other forms of assistance to small businesses. The firm’s programs include financial and federal contract procurement assistance, management assistance, and specialized outreach to women, minorities and armed forces veterans. It also provides loans to victims of natural disasters and specialized advice and assistance in international trade. The company delivers its services to people throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, the U. S. Virgin Islands and Guam. US Small Business Administration was founded on July 30, 1953 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Riverside Partners LLC /New York/ (Riverside Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1988 by Bela Szigethy. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices across the globe.

Ridgemont Partners Management LLC (Ridgemont Partners Management) is a private equity firm founded in 1993 by Travis Hain, George E. Morgan, and Walker L. Poole. The firm is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Wells Fargo Securities LLC (WFS) is the broker/dealer subsidiary of EVEREN Capital Corp., ultimately owned by Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC). Headquartered in New York, WFS delivers a comprehensive suite of banking, capital markets and advisory solutions, such as a full complement of sales, trading and research capabilities, to corporate, government and institutional clients.

AGDATA LP provides analytical, consulting, data management and business process engineering services. The firm through its data solutions enables agriculture industry participants to collect and analyze sales data; develop and manage marketing strategies; and execute sales and marketing programs. Its SaaS-based industry-standard platforms manage grower identification, contact and licensing information and farm hierarchy information on an industry basis and collect and aggregates point-of-sale transaction information for the industry. The company was founded by Verl O. Purdy in 1985 and is headquartered in Charlotte, NC.

BB&T Securities LLC, doing business as BB&T Capital Markets, is the broker/dealer subsidiary of BB&T Corp. (NYSE: BBT). The firm is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. They offer a full array of investment, trading and execution services to middle-market companies. BB&T Capital Markets' sales and trading arm is comprised of 2 groups: Debt Securities Sales & Trading and Equity Sales & Trading. The Debt Securities Sales & Trading group focuses on: (1) Government and agency securities (2) corporate bonds (3) municipal bonds (4) asset-backed securities (5) mortgage-backed securities (6) preferred securities and (7) money market desk (short-term securities including BB&T funding). The Equity Sales & Trading group focuses on: (1) institutional block execution services (2) institutional distribution of proprietary research (3) providing proprietary access to industry leading conferences and management teams (4) serving as a NASDAQ market maker for over 250 securities (5) stock buybacks including 10b-18 and 10b5-1 trading plans and (6) 144 stock sales, individual 10b5-1 trading plans (buy and sell) and employee cashless stock option programs. BB&T Capital Markets provides research coverage of the communications, defense and government services, energy, financial services, furnishings and consumer durables, healthcare, industrial services, retail/consumer durables and transportation services sectors.

Arcapita Group Holdings Ltd. provides alternative Islamic financial products. It offers investors with opportunities in alternative investment products in a Shariah-compliant manner and investment management services in connection with such products. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in George Town, Cayman Islands.

Landscape Workshop LLC engages in provision of landscaping services. It offers landscape maintenance, landscape construction, landscape enhancements, and facility services. The company was founded by Joey Dobbs and in 1984 and is headquartered in Birmingham, AL.

Armstrong Transport Group LLC provides logistics, consulting, and transportation services. It offers full service logistics services including full truckload, rail, refrigerated, heavy haul, expedited, and over dimensional. The company was founded by Christopher Cobb in 2006 and is headquartered in Charlotte, NC.

Process Equipment, Inc. manufactures installs, and repairs air, gas and material handling equipment. It offers onsite technical, construction, turnkey, preventive maintenance, and southern field services. The firm serves to the biomass, power, cement and lime, steel and metals, and paper industries. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Pelham, AL.

Pegasus TransTech LLC provides document management and integrated document delivery solutions. Its products include TRANSFLO a document management and workflow solution to process, store, and retrieve business documents, such as proof of delivery, bills of lading, packing lists, receipts, employment applications, and accident reports. The company was founded by Leslie Berlin in 1998 and is headquartered in Tampa, FL.

HEPACO LLC engages in the provision of emergency response, and environmental remediation. Its services include emergency response, industrial, marine, waste, and remediation. The company was founded by Ronald L. Horton, Sr. in 1984 and is headquartered in Charlotte, NC.

Pye-Barker Fire & Safety LLC distributes fire and safety equipment. The firm’s products and services include national accounts, 24-hour emergency service, backflow preventers, burglar alarms/CCTV, code compliance reporting, data center fire suppression, exit signs/emergency lighting, fire alarms, fire extinguishers, fire sprinklers, fire training, industrial paint booths, fire safety inspections, kitchen exhaust hood cleaning, restaurant fire suppression, marine fire suppression, specialty fire and vehicle fire suppression. The company was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Alpharetta, GA.

The Telecommunications Development Fund, Inc. operates as a venture capital firm. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Chevy Chase, MD.

Forstmann Little & Co. (Forstmann Little) is an independent private equity firm founded in 1978. The firm is headquartered in New York.

The Carlyle Group LP (Global Private Equity) is a private equity firm founded in the year 1990 by William E. Conway, Jr. and Daniel A. D'Aniello. The firm is headquartered in Washington DC.